A Super Power And Its “No Win Wars.”

This country is supposed to be the leading nation in the world, both militarily and as a free nation. We have the best technology and the finest fighting men and  women in the world. The problem with our leadership is they’ve relied on our present day weaponry to wage war with enemies who have nothing and fight with more primitive means e.g. digging miles and miles of tunnels to hide from their adversary.

   George Bush was way off  base when he stated on t.v. awhile ago Russian President Putin is our friend, he is in fact, both friend and ally to China, North Korea and Iran. If our leaders decide to jump on Russia’s allies indiscriminately because Geo W. says do it, I’m the boss, we may have bought off more than we can chew. Whose side do you think Putin will back? A look at our first No Win War, Korea.

   The Korean War, then called a Police Action started on 6/25/50 and concluded on 7/27/53. President Truman was our Commander in Chief until he lost his seat to Dwight Eisenhower in ’53.  It doesn’t look as though either of them knew anything about gorilla warfare, because those little devious devils kept dodging what we thought was the inevitable. But everything was about to change, thanks to Josef Stalin.

  He sat in Russia thinking about the bomb we dropped on  Japan, wishing he could drop one on us. But, he was also worried about the possibility of  North Korea losing and another chunk of Communism would go down the tubes. He came up with a solution. Being he and the Chinese were already trading partners, why not ask them to send some troops across the DMZ to help his North Korean friends. He did and they complied with his wishes. The North Korean forces and the Chinese ran us out of Dodge.

   We had a total of 33,6866 battle deaths, as well as a multitude of permanently injured, but it was our first No Win War and wasn’t to be the last. Two Presidents were involved with the war and it seems they had learned nothing about an enemy who fights with nothing but his wits and a few Russian made rifles and a few Russian MIG’s .

   Viet Nam was to be a much longer migraine headache for our forces for over a decade. President Johnson and then ‘Tricky Dick’ Nixon were to have their hands full trying, and then failing to make South Vietnam a Democratic Sovereignty.

  The Viet Cong didn’t want to hear this crap. They were determined to run us off and set up shop in Saigon, and as history bears out, The did exactly that.

   We dropped millions of tons of bombs in the north, but for the most part, they hi tthe earth and shook a few dishes in the tunnels the V.C. had dug.When we did manage to do some damage, they came out, made repairs and ducked their heads again. It must have been exasperating to our fighting men and woman.

   There were 58,209 battle related deaths in the Viet Nam conflict and coupled with the Korean war losses of 33,686 battle related deaths, we have a total of  91,686 American lives lost so we could have another “No Win War.”

   Where are we at in the Middle East?  Iraq is going to be another ‘No Win War,’ because there’s no one in the country we can sit down with for either of  us to bargain with and there’s certainly no one in Iran to talk with and George W. wants it  his way, too.

   No one knows how things will turn out, but you can bet your bottom dollar, if  our Commander in Chief doesn’t start seeing the forest through the trees, and continues to start fighting with Russias allies, we won’t be fighting just the stinking Arabs, we’ll most likely be into World War III with Bush’s friend Putin.

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